LNG on option list for Alaska gas exports

BP may try to export gas from Alaska’s North Slope as LNG now that its proposal to pipe volumes to the Lower 48 has been scrapped.

The UK supermajor and partner ConocoPhillips said last month they were abandoning the Denali pipeline plan.

A spokesman said BP would look at the LNG option when it considers ways to monetise its giant resource base on the North Slope.

A ConocoPhillips spokeswoman said: “We will continue to evaluate different alternatives to monetise the state’s gas resources, including a large-diameter pipeline, an LNG export project and an in-state (spur pipeline) project¿ to south-central Alaska.”

BP re-injects between 8 billion and 9 billion cubic feet of gas per day at the giant Prudhoe field.